But What Can I Do?: Why Politics Has Gone So Wrong, and How You Can Help Fix It

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The Blair Years". The Random House Group. Archived from the original on 18 February 2009 . Retrieved 13 August 2007.

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Walker, Amy; Mason, Rowena. "Labour plays down Alastair Campbell expulsion review comments". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 11 June 2019 . Retrieved 11 June 2019. I’ve written it in three parts. The first is an analysis of how we got to this state of affairs, with the global financial crisis a key moment, and the 3Ps of the modern age, populism, polarisation and post-truth politics, exploited by opportunistic politicians around the world to change the nature of political debate in a way that threatens to undermine democracy itself. Chapter 5, The Threat of Fascism, underlines how seriously I think we need to take the danger. Chapter 6, on the perils of disengagement, acts as a bridge to Part 2. Alistair Campbell honoured at Royal College of Psychiatrists' #RCPsychAwards 2017". rcpsych.ac.uk. Royal College of Psychiatrists. Archived from the original on 10 November 2017 . Retrieved 9 November 2017.

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Alastair Campbell". menshealth.com. Mens Health. Archived from the original on 10 March 2022 . Retrieved 5 April 2022. After leaving university and doing casual jobs Campbell was accepted as a trainee reporter with the Mirror Group Newspapers. Campbell, Alastair (23 May 2012). "Joining Portland". Portland Communications. Archived from the original on 27 May 2012 . Retrieved 5 July 2013. Campbell moved into government when Labour won the general election in May 1997 and served as the Prime Minister's chief press secretary until 2000. In government, he implemented many radical changes to both procedure and operational management. He persuaded Cabinet Secretary Sir Robin Butler that government communications had to be modernised, and the government set up the Mountfield Review. He created a Strategic Communications Unit which gave Downing Street the power to co-ordinate all government activity, using what became known as "the grid" as its main apparatus. He set up a rapid rebuttal unit similar to the one he had used in opposition. He put Downing Street briefings on record for the first time, and although he was only identified as "The Prime Minister's Official Spokesman", he became one of the most high-profile and written about figures in British politics, earning the epithet "the real deputy Prime Minister". He opened briefings to the foreign media, among a raft of modernisation and efficiency strategies he introduced. [19] In 2001, Campbell claimed that the days of the bog standard comprehensive school were over due to educational policies of the Labour government. [20] [21] [22] Political Awards: and the winner is..." Channel 4 News. Channel 4. 23 January 2008. Archived from the original on 24 February 2009 . Retrieved 16 October 2008.

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He has on a number of occasions turned down the opportunity to sit in the House of Lords. In 2010, Gordon Brown offered him a senior ministerial position alongside a peerage, but Campbell is a long-standing opponent of the House of Lords. In November 2021 Campbell was featured in the BBC series Winter Walks, walking in the Yorkshire Dales along Ribblesdale, from a waterfall above the market town of Settle, to Catrigg Force near Stainforth, 5mi (8.0km) to the North. [97]Perhaps the most important reform needed, however, is a change in how we elect our MPs. There is no such thing as a perfect electoral system. But our first past the post system is so far from perfect that it too must be revised and made fit for the very changed politics of today.

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This is a book for supporters of democracy,” he states, and in many ways it is everything a manifesto should be: heartfelt, hectoring, impassioned, rousing.

In 2018 Campbell worked for the People's Vote campaign's planning and organisation of a march on Parliament on 20 October, which drew an estimated 250,000 people [59] onto the streets. The march was described by the media as the second biggest ever, after the protest against the Iraq war in 2003.

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Winter Walks". bbc.co.uk. 30 November 2021. Archived from the original on 30 November 2021 . Retrieved 30 November 2021. Iqbal, Nosheen. "Politics, privilege and podcasts: at home with Alastair Campbell". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 8 June 2019 . Retrieved 11 June 2019. Curtis, Polly (2009). "The end of the 'bog-standard' comprehensive". theguardian.com. "The day of the bog-standard comprehensive is over" Every morning as I wake, I give myself a number. From one to 10. My depression scale. So much of the day ahead will depend on that first feeling, and the mark I give to my mood.

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Campbell clashed with Adam Boulton on Sky News about the result of the 2010 general election, with the latter being reduced to shouting over both Campbell and the show's presenter. [33]